Medieval Europe //— Ordinary years people had enough bread to eat. Bad years ment people starving and dying for the lack of bread. Meat was a luxery for party occasion only. Fish was plenty and considered boring. read more
Kant and Voltaire were vocal in attacking the Middle Ages as a period of social regress dominated by religion, while Gibbon in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire expressed contempt for the"rubbish of the Dark Ages". read more